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Message-Id: <20071018000244.2513c564.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:02:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] remove netpoll receive code On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:28:38 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:21:31 -0700 > > > I propose that we take out all the whole netpoll rx path. If/when > > kgdb gets submitted a better and alternative receive path can be > > added. > > I would like to kill the RX side handling of netpoll too, > but I don't think that's reasonable as kgdb is actively > being pushed for 2.6.25 inclusion. > > Andrew is likely to add it to his -mm tree soon and therefore kgdb > will need to work properly now. git-kgdb.patch has been in there for ages - maybe a year. Although I disabled it a week or so ago due to the sheer number of rejects. Will bring it back when things settle down a bit. > The RX netpoll thing has a long precedence, it's been in the tree for > a long time, so we are in some ways stuck with it until we have a > complete replacement facility. That means we can't yank it out first > and implement the replacement later. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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